January 31, 2013

THE SHADE OF IT ALL!

You gotta love a scholarly paper where Dorian Corey is quoted as the subject's preeminent authority! (She was the Paris Is Burning queen who left a mummified body of her ex in her apartment for decades, it was discovered after her death.

"We remember the queens of Paris Is Burning; we remember how they lived and most of us do so in admiration. The proliferation of "throwing shade" is a small victory for them, a happy ending of sorts for people who thought a lot about the mark they were leaving, a realization of what was once all a dream. When we use it, we are saying "hooray for them," and we are serious, no T no shade."